Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge!The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... A Kaleidoscope of Colour! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create a project with lots of colour ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...
Ellen did some sketching this week, using Faber-Castell PITT pens (waterproof and archival) for the sketching, and adding color and shading with Faber-Castell gelatos and Aquarelles watercolor pencils. Both products blend beautifully with Ranger's new detail water brush, using a craft sheet as a palette.
Lynne began this weeks challenge by running a Gold Gelato around the edge of a Canvas Corp Canvas and then brushed on Carmel Glitter Glam. She then stamped with Jet Black Archival Ink, a flower 3 times on a piece of canvas and colored the images with the Yellow, Pink, Gold and Red Gelatos and spritzed with water. Using a Green Big Brush Pen, she drew the stem and leaves on more canvas and used Green and Gold Gelatos to color in.
A little something from The Tim, a little something from The Wendy and lots of Terry are all in the altered cover of her photo-album. As promised Terry made a little something for her colleague's sister. She used the stamp set from The Wendy Vecchi, worked with Gelatos on the Tulips placing a Rosette on top. The Butterflies are by The Tim Holtz and on top yes, Gelatos, with a bit of crackle rock candy, which she could not resist.
Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 6th May 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!
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Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Anything Goes Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is 218. Jennifer Congratulations Jennifer ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies! Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 96 Gillian 136 Sue C 190 Lynn Stevens
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget tocheck out this week's Challenge... this week we want you to see your Favourite Word! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge!
The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to
check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says
Stamp and Show ... A Word! If you want to join in the fun
... all you need to do is ... create a project with a word ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up
so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what
the Design Team came up with...
One of Tracy's favourite words of the minute is IMAGINE highlighted here with the use of the IMAGINE die which inspired Tracy's decorated book cover. The image from Winged Things 1 gave Tracy the perfect image to use in her imaginitive piece. Wings from the Regal Adornments along with a metal Word Band added to the overall piece.
Ellen has been sketching this week, with flowers as her inspiration, so her favorite word is "bloom". She used a PITT pen for the sketching, and Faber-Castell gelatos with a water brush for the coloring and shading. Bloom was stamped with Hero Arts lower case alphabet set.
Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 29th April 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!
Please take care to link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Remember if we cannot find your post ... we cannot leave a comment ...Thank you.
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Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Lord Tim Technique Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is 36. Dangina Congratulations Dangina ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies! Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 39 Kyla 40 Marjie Kemper 79 Eva's Scraproom
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget tocheck out this week's Challenge... this week we want you to see your Anything Goes projects! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge!
The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to
check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says
Stamp and Show ... Anything Goes! If you want to join in the fun
... all you need to do is ... create Anything! ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up
so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what
the Design Team came up with...
An old frame was due a little transformation this week, painted with Little Black Dress Fresco Finish acrylic paint, a little Crackle Glaze and a top coat of Snowflake. A fabulous dimensional heart cut from corrugated card using the Heart Wings die adds the WOW factor.
For this week's Anything Goes challenge, Candy is sharing three ATC cards. Using combinations of various Distress Stains, Distress Inks, Archival Inks, Perfect Pearls and Matte Multi Medium, Candy has created three distinct backgrounds for her ATC cards. From vintage to funky, ANYTHING GOES on these ATCs!
Ellen "followed her heart" this week, using Dylusions ink sprays (fresh lime and black marble) to create a marbled background, stamping with the hearts border from the Inbetweenies set, accenting with white gelly roll pen, creating a hand-stamped sentiment, and accenting with an idea-ology heart charm and wire pin.
Sarah is really excited to see all the fabulous Paper Artsy stamps and products at Simon Says Stamp. She created three ATCs using Distress Stains, Distress Inks and the Diamonds in the Rough embossing folder to show-case the Hot Pick Stamp ranges and great matching dies.
Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 22nd April 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!
Please take care to link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Remember if we cannot find your post ... we cannot leave a comment ...Thank you.
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Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Studio 490 Inspiration Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is 19 Carol Congratulations Carol ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies! Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 10 Mommyle 18 Rhea 21Petliza J Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget tocheck out this week's Challenge ... this week we want you to see your Lord Tim technique projects! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge!
The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to
check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says
Stamp and Show ... A Lord Tim Technique! If you want to join in the fun
... all you need to do is ... create something using a Tim Holtz Technique! ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up
so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what
the Design Team came up with...
Tracy is on her adventures again this week, this time in a HOT AIR BALLOON using not one but four of Tim's techniques; rusted enamel, chipped enamel, altered metal with paint and dimensional collage fragments. With a little help from Tim's Remnants set, London Underground and Odds and Ends set. Throw into the mix plenty of Nostalgic Tissue Tape and butterscotch Color Wash and we are ready for take off!
Ellen used the marbled distress stain background and stamping with picket fence stain techniques to create her tag this week. She used stamps from Tim's Papillon, Haberdashery, and Little Labels sets for the background, and the sentiment from the Stuff to Say set, accenting with embellishments from Tim Holtz, 7 Gypsies, and some vintage lace and buttons.
Dan's niece asked him to make a gift box for a necklace she'd made for her mum, something "gentle and a bit floral". These aren't two of Dan's strong points, but pale spring colours and Tim's Wrinkle-Free Distress technique came to the rescue! Products he used included Distress ink pads, Distress stains, Color Wash sprays and the Floral Tattoo stamp set.
I used Tim's Blended Batik technique on the new Ranger Speciality Stamping Paper to create my card ... if you have n't tried the paper yet ... you need to ... I LOVE it! The lettering is done with Alpha Parts from both the Newsprint and Ransom sets. Embellishments include an Ornate Plate and Tissue Tape.
Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 15th April 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!
Please take care to link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Remember if we cannot find your post ... we cannot leave a comment ...Thank you.
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Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Tag Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is 10 Shary Congratulations Shary ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies! Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 29 Ellie Knol 40 Sue C 54 jannyjager 'thooft Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget tocheck out this week's Challenge ... this week we want you to see your Wendy Vecchi inspired projects! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello again everyone! Thank you for playing along with last week's challenge ... the winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week!
Before I set out the details for this week's challenge I have some sad news to share with you all. After spending the most amazing couple of years on the Design Team with Nancy ... we have to say goodbye. Nancy is leaving us to spend more time on other things ... we are going to miss her ... a lot ... and I am sad to say that this week will be the last time we will get to see her amazing creations here on the challenge blog. Of course you can still check out her wonderful art on her own blog. I am sure you will all join me, the Design Team and the entire Simon Says Stamp family by saying a huge THANK YOU and wishing Nancy the best of everything in all that she does! We are soooooo gonna miss you girlfriend!
This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Some Inspiration Studio 490! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something with any of the Studio 490 range of Stamps and Art Parts ... or take inspiration from the great Wendy Vecchi herself and try out one of her amazing techniques ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...
Candy loves Studio 490 and Wendy Vecchi's incredible Stamps! So she incorporated thirteen of Wendy's stamp sets in this simple to make gift card holder. Bo Bunny's 6x6 Et Cetera Paper Pack provides the perfect background papers. A dimensional flower from Wendy's Florals Art Parts graces the cover. Pictured here is the interior of this fun and versatile project.
When I saw these Kaiser Mini Albums ... I just had to have them! I LOVE making mini books and Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 stamps are just perfect for creating a vintagey ... grungey ... flowery kind of a thang! As for Inspiration 490 ... Wendy's fabulous books are packed full of it ... you soooooo need all of them!
Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 8th April 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!
Please take care to link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Remember if we cannot find your post ... we cannot leave a comment ...Thank you.
Please note that we are unable to leave comments where the host site demands membership in order to do so